Category Archives: Meaningful

Getting out of our own way

Musing on living a life uses difficulty and conflict as signals for what I care about most… Maria Nemeth, PhD nails it; Life is hard when you don’t do what you truly value because you are putting all your energy … Continue reading

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Practicing Nonviolence in teaching

Bienvenidos a Guatemala. On the southern coast righ tnow in a small village supplementing the exisiting Guatemalan Education System with an Arts, Emotional Awareness and English Curriculum that doesn’t exist in their normal day to day school system. We Gamized … Continue reading

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BayNVC LP11

Do you know this face? Why, that’s Marshall Rosenberg, founder of NVC! (Non Violent Communication) With concepts like  Empathy vs. Advice and Power With vs Power Over this guy has changed the way I think about life. I’m excited to … Continue reading

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Story Box

Story Box – An experiment in Connection. “By creating a venue for people to interactively share their stories, in which participants play the role of both speaker and listener, Story Box will help create a greater sense of connectedness – … Continue reading

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Harvard talk friday, Dec 4th 2010 – An Afternoon Encounter with Capital Punishment in America

Dead Man Walking: An Afternoon Encounter with Capital Punishment in America “In the early 1970s, the US rate of imprisonment was around 100 per 100,000 people. Today, the imprisonment rate is five times higher, the prison and jail population totals … Continue reading

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Brené Brown talks on Shame and Vulerability at TED

Shame -Nobody wants to talk about it, and the less you talk about it the more you have it.

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